This Is Why Gossip Is Harmful
December 15, 2022
Amy Carmichael, a missionary leader in India, said that her mission--the Dohnavur Fellowship--had a rule for conversation: "The absent one must be safe among us." That was her way of reminding people that to talk about another person in a derogatory or degrading way in their absence when we would never say the same thing in their presence takes unfair advantage of the person. "The absent one must be safe among us..."
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You never know what to expect when a child opens his mouth! He may embarrass you; he may amuse you; or he may say something that reveals wisdom beyond his years.
December 14, 2022
How far will an individual go just to get someone to listen? Take for example the man who robbed a bank near our office. He had no sooner asked for the money, which was placed in a brown paper bag, then he sat down on the floor and started to cry; and he kept on crying until the police arrived. You see, he has two children who needed physical help, and he was willing to go to prison for someone to hear his furtive cry for help.
December 13, 2022
"Dear Dr. Sala," writes a listener, "I'm 26 years of age, and at this point in my life, I have such an empty feeling. I'm a member of a Baptist Church (which I haven't been to for at least a month). I'm trying to reach for something but I don't know what!! I'm spiritually weak. Is there a time in our lives when we become stumped--you don't know which way to go? If you are able to answer these questions, please reply."
December 12, 2022
When he went to war in 1941, his brother told him, "Be strong!" And for 30 years, Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier, was strong! He refused to quit fighting. Even when the war was over, he kept on hiding, running, sabotaging the enemy, striving to be as strong as was humanly possible.
December 9, 2022
Frank Mihalic tells of a man with a deeply infected tropical ulcer who, hobbling on crutches, came to the local clinic asking for help. A nursing sister looked at the open wound, infected and enlarged with redness that reflected poison that could take his leg, or possibly his life. What should she do? Medicines were sparse but she also knew that his condition was serious.
December 8, 2022
After I had spoken in a church, I was standing at the door talking with people when a guest approached me. "I suppose you are one of those people who believe God sends people to hell!" the person somewhat sarcastically directed to me. "No," I said somewhat matter-of-factly, "I don't believe God sends people to hell at all," pausing for this to register and then added, "I think we send ourselves there when we refuse the life God offers us, the One who sent His son to save us from such a place."
December 7, 2022
It's a fact: There is little agreement among people, scholars, or religious groups as to what hell is like. Some think of it as literal place of torment. Others conceive it in terms of unpleasantness in the present. Still others think of it as simply ceasing to exist, separated from goodness and certainly God.
December 6, 2022
When he was asked his thoughts on death, comedian Woody Allen said, "I am not afraid of dying--I just don't want to be there when it happens." Allen isn't alone. A century before him, Mark Twain is reported to have said that he wished he knew where he was going to die because he would never go near the place.
December 5, 2022
I was invited to speak at a school in Russia in a place where I’d never been before and I was immediately confronted with two questions: Where is this place? And how do I get there?
December 2, 2022
American poet Edgar Albert Guest wrote, "It takes a heap of livin' to make a house a home." That's another way of saying there is a tremendous difference between a house and a home. You may have visited some of the mansions of the great such as Buckingham Palace in London, or Holyrood House in Edinburgh, or Hearst Castle in Northern California. They are interesting to look at, and we are fascinated by those who live in them, but the average person would say, "No thanks! I'd prefer where I live right now." Why? Most mansions and castles are not very user-friendly.
December 1, 2022
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